Revolutionary soldiers retreating to Dazhimen

Revolutionary soldiers retreating to Dazhimen

Identifier

WS01-020

Notes

University of Bristol – Historical Photographs of China reference number: WS01-020.  Photograph taken from a train; the soldiers on the far right are on the train.  See 'The Birth of a Republic' '- Francis Stafford’s Photographs of China’s 1911 Revolution and Beyond' by Hanchao Lu (University of Washington Press, 2010), page 66, where this photograph is captioned: "Rebel troops retreating from Liujiamiao to Dazhimen after the bombardment of Hankou by imperial artillery on October 27, which caused over five hundred military and civilian casualties". 

Caption in album or on mount

Revolutionary soldiers on the march.

Location

Wuhan

Date

October 1911

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

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